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Goodbye, Buffalo!
By IZABELLA DUCATO | 8:14pmMy whole life, I always said I would be a journalist if money didn’t matter.
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Thank you Spectrum for all the good times
By CIAH COURTNEY | 8:11pmMy time writing for and leading the sports desk have been incredibly fun and rewarding experiences, experiences that if you told me a few years ago that this side quest was in my future I would not have believed you.
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Dear Spectrum
By BEYONCE THOMAS-REYNOSO | 8:11pmFor the longest time I believed that my route would be law as it was the only thing that made sense.
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Thank you, The Spectrum
By BELLE CLARK | May 12I first heard of The Spectrum when a guest speaker, Matt Parino, visited my COM 101 class after I transferred to UB. Right away, I knew I wanted to be a part of it, so I decided to reach out — and from the beginning, I was welcomed.
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To The Spectrum
By DREW HECKMAN | May 12My time at The Spectrum has been one of the defining experiences of my time at UB. Some of the best people that I have met at UB have been the editors that I've worked with all year, and I will treasure all of the great times that I have had this year and half of working here.
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Goodbye UB
By SAQIB KHAN | May 12A place where creative ambitions thrive, and honest storytelling is pursued — The Spectrum. I cannot emphasize enough how much this experience meant to me.
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Logging off: one last post
By SABRINA WROBLEWSKI | May 12When my past Resident Advisor-in-mate Ricardo Castillo asked me if I would be interested in joining the UB Spectrum team my sophomore year — my first statement was: “The newspaper? Bruh what.”
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Thank you, UB Spectrum
By OLIVIA RISOLO | May 12Early on, it was evident to me that I had a passion for learning new things. Using YouTube as my teacher, I was always picking up a new hobby. I've been a makeup artist, a hair stylist, a fashion designer, a dancer, a singer, a content creator, a photographer and now, a Spectrum Multimedia Editor.
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Best of The Spectrum 2025-26
By AMY ARACENA and IZABELLA DUCATO | May 5As the 2025-2026 academic year comes to a close, The Spectrum Editor in Chief, Izabella Ducato, and Managing Editor, Amy Aracena would like to reflect on some of the best stories we have seen this year.
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Natural hair is simpler than you’ve been told
By KYA SMITH | May 5The “Black is Beautiful” movement originated in Harlem, 1960s. This campaign was a community effort to uplift people that didn’t fit eurocentric features and feel represented in Western society.
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My Bridget Jones year
By KELLY MCKIERNAN | Apr. 28Throughout the movie, viewers see Bridget Jones go from an insecure and self-loathing woman to one with confidence and self-acceptance.
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Is AI worth your water and air?
By AGNES KEOUGH | Apr. 28AI can be a helpful tool to humans, but in turn, poses major threats to our environments.
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An ode to poetry
By EMMA WILSON | Apr. 21And if you ever had the urge to write prose on April’s weather, well try poetry. After all, it’s National Poetry Month.
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The new standard of beauty
By BELLE CLARK | Apr. 21Much of communication is nonverbal, and beauty plays directly into that as we make quick, snap judgments based on a person’s appearance.
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Around the moon and back
By ALEJANDRO HENRY-JACKSON | Apr. 21NASA’s Artemis II mission started on April 1 and concluded on April 10 with four astronauts returning to Earth off the coast of San Diego.
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Letter to the editor: 'The $4.5 million smear machine'
Apr. 15Editor's Note: This letter remains in the condition in which it is sent.
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How to get a guy in 10 days
By KAYLIE JACKSON | Apr. 14It may sound backwards, but the fastest way to “get” someone is to stop chasing them.
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What’s stopping us from falling in love?
By BELLE CLARK | Apr. 14What used to feel like a phase for a lot of people — choosing independence over relationships — now seems to be lasting longer.
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We’re calling out performative people the wrong way
By KADEN ZHONG | Apr. 7The term “performative” has recently seen an uptick in popularity, both in colloquial use and online searches, branding it the internet’s new buzzword of the season.
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The missed disease
By IZABELLA DUCATO | Apr. 7Endometriosis is a gynecological condition often nicknamed the “missed disease.”
